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A-Team Extends, Expands and Releases 2021/2022 Edition of Regulatory Data Handbook
Don’t miss the latest edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a publication dedicated to helping you gain a full understanding of regulations related to your organisation from the details of requirements to best practice implementation. The 2021/2022 handbook covers more than 40 regulations, providing you with a detailed description of each regulation including its…
IQ-EQ Acquires Greyline Partners to Boost US Presence
In its fourth US acquisition in two years, London-based regulatory technology specialist IQ-EQ has bought Greyline Partners, which offers outsourced governance and regulatory compliance solutions for the alternative asset sector, including hedge funds, venture capital, private equity and high net-worth investors. Greyline’s recently launched GCM Advisory outsourced CFO, finance and accounting business is also included in…
Can You Prove Risk-Based e-Comms Surveillance Outcomes Have Merit?
By Robert Houghton, Founder, CTO and Technical Evangelist at Insightful Technology. The elephant in the room whenever a discussion turns to risk-based surveillance is the fact that many Compliance Officers do not have complete confidence in their data. There are currently no parameters from the regulators of the financial sector to permit risk-based surveillance, yet…
SFDR: Dilemma of Shakespearean Proportions Looms Amid Scope Three Preparations
Financial institutions putting compliance processes in place for the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations may be reminded of Claudius’ dilemma in Hamlet. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions,” the usurper king bemoans as he contemplates an avalanche of challenges to his authority. As Shakespeare’s antagonist watched events piling relentlessly…
Vendor Strategy: Alveo Shifts from Professional Services to Managed Services to Broaden Offering Beyond Data Management
Alveo, a provider of market and reference data integration and analytics solutions for financial services firms, has designed its technology to optimise data flows for business user self-service, and provides cloud-native data aggregation and data quality solutions to give clients access to trusted data while maximising their return on investment. Martijn Groot, vice president of…
Privacy Enhancing Technologies – A Game Changer?
Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) hold promise for financial institutions as a means of collaborating on customer data while ensuring its privacy and security. Use cases include measuring the quality of KYC data in a peer group, sharing suspicious activity reports, and bringing together transaction data for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) purposes. As well as supporting these…
GDPR Reform: How Will a New Data Protection Regime Impact UK Financial Firms?
The data protection regulatory regime in the UK could soon look very different, if proposed changes to the current UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) come to fruition as part of a recently published UK government plan to move its data protection laws in a new direction following the country’s split from the EU….
Corlytics, First Derivative Win Funding for ‘Groundbreaking’ ESG Taxonomy Project
RegTech provider Corlytics and managed services group First Derivative have received funding to jointly develop an open-source ESG taxonomy mapping project. The companies received a “reasonably considerable amount” from Irish advocacy group Sustainable Finance Ireland (SFI). The money will help build out what the companies describe as the world’s first open-source taxonomy tool. Once compiled,…
Singapore RegTech Plan Signals Asian Maturity in ESG Approach
Singapore’s recent decision use RegTech to tackle greenwashing illustrates the strides leading Asian economies are making to toughen regulation of sustainable finance. The announcement at the city state’s annual fintech conference coincides with the release of a white paper by the Fintech Association of Hong Kong (FAHK). The document lays a vision of an ESG…
CloudMargin Partners with Margin Tonic for AANA Calculations Under UMR
Collateral management specialist CloudMargin has partnered with regulatory consulting services provider Margin Tonic to launch a global Average Aggregated Notional Amount (AANA) calculation service for the latter phases of the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR). The joint subscription solution automates the AANA calculation for clients using the CloudMargin platform, leveraging Margin Tonic’s expertise in the multi-jurisdictional UMR, helping…